Joseph ostebhout



@uitrit giclee geteld @fitta 1 Letters Patent No. 81,674, dated September 1, 1868.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

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To A LL WIIOM Ir MAY OONOERN=- Be it known that I, JOSEPH OSTERIIOUT, of Rock Island, in the county of Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Washing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will 'enable others skilled in thc'art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,

in whichl i Figure 1 is a. plan or top view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of' the same, taken on the line :u :z: of iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new-and improved clothes-washing machine, of that class in which corrugated rollers are employed in connection with an endless band or apron.

The object of the invention is toobtain a washing-machine of the hind specified, which will not injure or tear the clothes, and which willat the same time operatorio the mosteiiicient manner.

In the accompanying sheet'of drawings- Y Are'presents the vends-box of the machine, which may be of rectangular form, and supported by any proper framing.

In this suds-box there are placed transversely two corrugated orluted rollers, B B, which are parallel with each other, and have their shafts a itted in the ends of bars 'C C, each of which is provided with a central pin, b, to work ina vertical groove, c, the groove c being made in tbcinner surface of each side of the suda-box A.

These `groovesand pins serve as guides for the bars C G in their up and down movement.

D is Aalso aucorrugatedor liuted roller, placed parallelly above B B, and having its shaft, cZ, itted in xed hearings, E E, .on the top of the ends-hof: A, one end of the shaft d being provided with a cran-k, F, by which the roller D is turned,

Each bar C has the lowerend of a rod, G, 'attached to it, and these rodsextend upward,:and pass through `India-rubber springs, H, which springs have a tendency to keep' the rollers B B elevated in contact with the lower partof the.roller D, as4 willhc understood by referring to iig. 2. I

' I represents an endless hand or apron, which passes between the upper roller, D, and the lower rollers, B B, and around rollers e e, one near cach end of' the suds-boxfas shown in fig. 2.

This band -or apronA is nearly equal in width to the interior of the suds-box, and it is kept distended or stretched laterally by means of holders J J, composed of two lips, f, which extend or t overacord or rope, g, vsecured to each side ofthe hand or apron.

These holders are an 'important feature of theinvention, as they insure thepropcr working of the machine, preventing the bandor apron `from doublingup or gathering towards the centres of the rollers, a contingency which frequently occurs in the operation oi' machines of this class, and which causes considerable trouble, many of the clothesfnot being perfectly operated upon, in consequence ofthe great distension of the rollers B Bfro'm D, which is due to a thick mnss of clothes collecting at the contres Oi' the rollers. 4

The lower rollers, B B, in consequence of being fitted between the bars C C, and the latter connected with the springs H, are allowed to yield or give to varying thicknesses o' layers of clothes, the latter being efficiently operated'upOn between the rollers B B and D, by .rotating the latter lil-st in one direction andthen in the other. I

I'Iu'ving thus described my invention, I c1aim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The holdersJ J, secured to the inner sides ofthe suds-box, and applied to the band or apron I, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH O STERHOUT. Witnesses;

ALBERT RILEY, O. B. I-IUeeINs. 

